Ranking and Honors
The 2014 edition of U.S. News & World Report's "Best Law Schools" ranked the Washington University School of Law:
- 19th in the country overall (out of over 180 law schools)
- 9th in the country in Trial Advocacy
- 9th in the country in Clinical Training
Recent Leiter’s Law School Rankings placed the law school:
- 18th in the country (tie) in Student Quality
- 19th in the country (tie) in Academic Reputation
- 20th in the country (tie) in Lawyer/Judge Reputation
GraduatePrograms.com recently ranked Washington University as number 1 for social life. (The Above the Law article reporting this can be found here: http://abovethelaw.com/2013/02/the-most-important-part-of-law-school-social-life-rankings/).
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